Word: lapeller
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...serious practitioners of the art of persuasion, the implication seems obvious. A lawyer summing up his case to the jury, for instance, might be wise to do so from the middle of the courtroom. The politician had better get his fingers off that lapel, and the peripatetic salesman would do well to remove his foot from the door...
...only policemen and construction workers who wrap themselves in bunting. Gold flag pins are selling briskly at Tiffany's, and at Manhattan's "21," the maitre d' determinedly passes out little enameled flags for the lapel. With entirely different intentions-a mockery that is not always unaffectionate-the young wear flag shirts, flag ties, flag patches on their jeans...
...hurt, never winning an award, but I've never been the pet of intellectuals," he said. His small Pennsylvania towns, like Gibbsville of Appointment in Samarra and Ten North Frederick, were microcosms of American society, observed with scrupulous attention to detail-down to the width of the lapel on a man's suit. Gibbsville, in fact, closely resembles Pottsville, his old home town...
...Vladimir Ilyich Lenin were one-tenth as modest as the Russian history books make him out to be, he would be mortified. Last week, as the April 22 centennial of Lenin's birth approached, a flood of books, articles, paintings, plays, movies, symphonies, posters, busts, lapel buttons, and even special candy bars washed over the Soviet Union and some 100 other countries as well. The atheistic Soviet state is coming very close to conferring secular sainthood on its founder...
...quick wit of a Rhinelander. An adept mime, he delights in performing creditable imitations of other West German politicians. He loves to tell jokes, often making himself the butt. At a recent ball in West Berlin, for example, he showed up wearing a hand-lettered sign on his lapel that read in English: "Kiss me, I'm a Liberal...